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KALA NAMAK and SENDHA NAMAK (Himalayan Black and Pink Rock Salt) 1. Kala Namak or Black Salt is a special type of Indian vulcaninc mineral salt. It is actually pinkish grey rather than black and has a very distinctiive sulfurous mineral taste (like hard boiled egg yolks). Kala namak has withstood the test of time, sung of in ancient Vedic hymns, and identified by Maharishi Charak, the 300 BCE father of ayurvedic medicine. Ayurvedic healers claim this Indian black salt possesses several therapeutic qualities, and use it to pacify the bowels, aid weight loss, combat hysteria, and produce good dental hygiene. Kala namak begins its life deep in the mountains of Pakistan as the familiar Himalayan Pink Salt . Traditionally, the salt is transformed from its raw natural forms into commercially sold kala namak through a reductive chemical process that transforms some of the sodium sulphate in the raw salt into pungent hydrogen sulfide and sodium sulfide . This inv...